JAC Board Class 12 English 'A ' Question Paper 2026 PDF with Solutions - Available

'The Last Lesson' is set in the days of ______.

• (A) The Franco-Prussian War
• (B) The French Revolution
• (C) The Russian Revolution
• (D) The First World War

When and where was the Annual Convention of the Indian National Congress party held?

• (A) December 1916, Mumbai
• (B) January 1917, Bangalore
• (C) December 1916, Lucknow
• (D) January 1917, Varanasi

What is the story 'Deep Water' speaking about?

• (A) Fear of water and the way to overcome it
• (B) Fear of people and the way to overcome it
• (C) Fear of dogs and the way to overcome it
• (D) Fear of swimming and the way to overcome it

Where was Saheb employed?

• (A) at a tea stall
• (B) at a saree shop
• (C) at a jewellery shop
• (D) at a sweet shop

Whom did Gandhiji send telegram to, in Muzaffarpur?

• (A) Rajendra Prasad
• (B) Rajkumar Shukla
• (C) J. B. Kriplani
• (D) Commissioner of Tirthut

Which of the following can be added to make article writing interesting?

• (A) Quotes
• (B) Statistics
• (C) Both (A) and (B)
• (D) None of these

While writing notices the signature of the issuing authorities should be written at the ______.

• (A) bottom
• (B) margin
• (C) top
• (D) none of these

What is the motive of writing a letter to the editors?

• (A) To ask him to take action
• (B) To threaten him to take action
• (C) To order him to take action
• (D) To request him to give some space in his letter to Editor

What is written on the top while writing a Notice?

• (A) Name of organization
• (B) Date
• (C) Notice
• (D) Subject of notice

A Formal Letter starts with

• (A) Date
• (B) To
• (C) Sender's address
• (D) Salutation

Which of the following statements is correct for report writing?

• (A) A report may use slang words
• (B) A report must be creative, but not factual
• (C) A report presents facts and observations logically
• (D) A report must be humorous

Speech writing is a formal and verbal communication to

• (A) Deliver thoughts
• (B) Messages
• (C) Opinions and perspectives to readers
• (D) All of these

Pablo Neruda wants the entire humanity to

• (A) keep talking
• (B) keep running
• (C) keep laughing
• (D) keep still

Identify the literary device in "like late winter's moon".

• (A) Simile
• (B) Alliteration
• (C) Metaphor
• (D) Personification

Who is Endymion in the poem "A Thing of Beauty"?

• (A) Worker
• (B) Farmer
• (C) An office boy
• (D) A young shepherd

Who wanted a photograph of himself holding the gun and standing over the tiger's carcass?

• (A) The Durai
• (B) The courtier
• (C) The astrologer
• (D) The king

The name of the programme that takes high school students to the end of the earth is

• (A) Student of Ice
• (B) Student for Ice
• (C) Student above Ice
• (D) Students on Ice

Gondwana existed roughly around

• (A) 110 million years ago
• (B) 450 million years ago
• (C) 250 million years ago
• (D) 650 million years ago

Sadao went to America to learn

• (A) Psychiatry
• (B) Surgery and medicine
• (C) Music
• (D) Fine Arts

What percentage did the British planters agree to repay the Indian planters?

• (A) 10%
• (B) 30%
• (C) 25%
• (D) 40%

Why was Louisa, Charley's wife, worried?

• (A) Knowing the incident
• (B) For not getting tickets
• (C) Tickets were delayed
• (D) Sam was scaring her

What does the metaphor Rattrap in the lesson signify?

• (A) Humans
• (B) Thieves
• (C) Attraction
• (D) Human greed and distraction

Who is the poet of the poem "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"?

• (A) Adrienne Rich
• (B) Robert Frost
• (C) Kamala Das
• (D) John Keats

The founder of Gemini Studios was

• (A) Subbu
• (B) S. S. Vasan
• (C) Kalki
• (D) None of them

What was Maharaja's preference for marrying a girl?

• (A) She must be tall
• (B) She must have blonde hair
• (C) She must have been poor
• (D) She must have tigers in her estate

What does V. S. Naipaul feel about interviews?

• (A) Horror
• (B) Happy
• (C) Wanted
• (D) None of these

To whom did Sophie tell her secrets out first?

• (A) Her father
• (B) Her brother-Geoff
• (C) Dancy Casey
• (D) Her friend-Jansie

Who is Mr. Lamb?

• (A) An old man with an artificial leg
• (B) Derry's grandfather
• (C) Derry's neighbour
• (D) A Gardener

Annan is elder brother of

• (A) Sophie.
• (B) Jansie.
• (C) Bama.
• (D) Derry.

Why did Zitkala hide herself?

• (A) To save herself
• (B) To save herself from a woman
• (C) To save herself from other children
• (D) To stop people from cutting her hair